James Cook Quotes

Management is simple, innovation is hard.

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

Give persons who would cheat you every opportunity so you can soon be rid of them.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.

Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.

The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.

Nobody heeds danger when they're making money.

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

The more welfare, the more crime.

In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.

Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.

No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but

I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.

There is a reason and not a reason for everything.

Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.

The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.

You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.

Getting is more fun than having.

You can't suffer over two things at once.

Whatever you subsidize you get more of.

We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism.

We should worry about our own souls first and trust in God's plan for others.

Beware the person who is on a hot streak.

Other than sex, two things bring people together; economic transactions and booze.

At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility.

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.

Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.

The government endangers us with our own money.

There is nothing very religious about feeling superior to those who don't share your views.

There is no help from without, only from within.

What is written is more influential than what is said.